David W. Townsend, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE (October 2022)

David W. Townsend, Ph.D.

Professor of Oceanography School of Marine Sciences 5706 Aubert Hall, Rm 341

University of Maine Orono, ME 04469

Personal Data:

Marital Status:

Married 47 years; two daughters (& still married)

Home Address & Tel: 1 Page Place, Orono, Maine 04473; (207) 866-2145

Formal Education: B.A. 1974 M.S. 1977 Ph.D. 1981

Zoology Marine Science Oceanography

University of Maine at Orono, Orono, ME 04473 Long Island University, Greenvale, NY 11548 University of Maine at Orono, Orono, ME 04473

Positions: September 1981 - June 1993: Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, W. Boothbay Harbor, ME. July 1993 - August 1997: Associate Research Professor of Oceanography and Executive Director of the Regional Marine Research Program, University of Maine. September 1997 - August 1999: Associate Professor of Oceanography. School of Marine Sciences. University of Maine, September 1999 ? Present: Professor of Oceanography, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine. July 2001 ? June 2007: Professor of Oceanography and Director of the School of Marine Sciences. July 2015 ? December 2018: Professor of Oceanography and Associate Director for Research and Graduate Studies, School of Marine Sciences. January 2019 ? 2021: Professor of Oceanography and Director of the School of Marine Sciences.

Administrative Experience: Executive Director ARGO-Maine, the Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine February 1986 - June 1991 Executive Director The Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine October 1991 - June 1992 Executive Director Gulf of Maine Regional Marine Research Program July 1993 - June 1998 Director, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine July 2001 ? June 2007

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Associate Director, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine July 2015 ? December 2018

Director, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine January 2019 to Present

Vice President, University of Maine Faculty Senate July 1, 2016 ? June 30, 2018

President, University of Maine Faculty Senate July 1, 2018 ? 2020.

Awards: 2001 ? College Outstanding Teacher Award. Awarded annually by the University of Maine's College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture;

2006 ? Distinguished Maine Professor Award. Awarded annually "to a tenured member of the University of Maine faculty who exemplifies the highest qualities of teaching, research, and public service".

2022 ? 2022 Visionary Award from the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment.

Societies and Affiliations: Phi Beta Kappa Phi Kappa Phi Sigma Xi American Association for the Advancement of Science The Oceanography Society

Committees: NOAA Coastal Ocean Progr., Coastal Fisheries Ecosystem Scientific Advisory Comm., 1991-1994. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program, Proposal Review Panel, June 1992, Miami Fla. UNH/Univ. of Maine Sea Grant Policy Advisory Committee, 1990-1996. Estuarine Research Federation Governing Board, 1990-1992. National Science Foundation, Bering Sea FOCI Review Panel, Dec. 1991, Seattle, WA National Research Council, Coastal Ocean Program Review Panel, 1993-1994. National Research Council, Co-Chair Science Policy Symposium, Nov. 1994. National Undersea Research Program, NOAA, West Coast Program, Proposal Review Panel, Monterey, CA, 1995. National Marine Fisheries Service-Marine Mammals Protection Act, Gulf of Maine Ecosystem Health Workshop, Steering Committee, 1995. National Research Council. Life Sciences Panel for Associateship Program, 1996-1998. National Science Foundation. Panel on the Southern Ocean Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, 1996. National Science Foundation. Biological Oceanography Panel. May 1998. National Research Council. Co-Chair, Life Sciences Panel for Associateship Program, 1998-2001. Northeast Consortium Advisory Committee, Member 2000-2002. EPA/New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, Nutrient Assessment Team Member, 2000-2002. Maine Oil Spill Advisory Committee, Maine State Legislature Appointment 2001-2004. U.S. Georges Bank GLOBEC Executive Committee, 1999-2004. University of Maine, Alumni Association Board of Directors, 2002-2004. Maine Sea Grant College Program, Policy Advisory Committee, 2001-2007. Census of Marine Life, Gulf of Maine Pilot Study, Advisory Committee, 2005 to present. Gulf of Maine Fisheries Research Collaborative, Committee member, 2001-2004.

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Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine (RARGOM), U. Maine rep., 2001-2007; UNOLS (University National Oceanographic Laboratory System), U. Maine rep., 1999-2007; CORE (Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education), U. Maine rep., 2001-2007; NOAA/NSF ECOHAB Proposal Review Panel, April 2003. University of Florida Sea Grant Program, Proposal Review Panel, May 2003. Executive Committee, Board of Oceans and Atmosphere, NASULGC, June >03 - present. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Academic External Review; April 2004. NIH Review Panelist of Florida Internat. Univ., Oceans and Human Health program; May 2004; University of Florida Sea Grant Program, Proposal Review Panel, May 2005. Maine Marine Research Coalition, Committee Member, 2004 - 2007; New York Sea Grant Review Panel, August 2005. University of Florida Sea Grant Program, Proposal Review Panel, April 2007. National Science Foundation, Proposal Review Panel, LTER, April 2008. Board of Directors, NERACOOS, Northeast Regional Associate for Coastal Ocean Observing

Systems, September 2015 ? present Faculty Senate President, University of Maine, 2018-2020. University of Maine NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative, 2020-2022.

Teaching Experience: OCE 501: Biological Oceanography: Fall Semester 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2006. OCE 693-003: Advances in Biological Oceanography: Spring Semester 1995. SMS 691: Oceanography of the Gulf of Maine: Spring Semesters 2007; 2011; SMS 544: Oceanography and Natural History of the Gulf of Maine.:Spring Semester 2014-present SMS 100: Introduction to Ocean Science. Fall Semesters 1997 to present.

Research Interests: Biological oceanography of estuaries and shelf seas; Fisheries oceanography; Ecology and population dynamics of larval fishes and zooplankton; Plankton ecology and trophodynamics; Coupling of physical and biological processes.

Research Cruise Experience: Total of 94 cruises; chief scientist on 38; 642 days at sea.

Publications (abstracts and technical reports not included):

A. College Textbook:

David W. Townsend. 2012. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Introduction to Marine Science. Sinauer Associates, an Imprint of Oxford University Press. 577 pp.

B. Articles, Reviews, and Edited Volumes:

1. Townsend, D.W. 1980. Microstructural growth increments in some Antarctic fish otoliths. Cybium 3(8): 17-22.

2. Townsend, D.W. and J.J. Graham. 1981. Growth and age structure of larval herring (Clupea harengus L.) in the Sheepscot River estuary of Maine as determined by daily growth increments in otoliths. Fishery Bulletin, U.S. 79(1): 123-130.

3. Barker, S.L., D.W. Townsend and J.S. Hacunda. 1981. Mortalities of herring (Clupea harengus), smooth flounder (Liopsetta putnami) and smelt (Osmerus mordax) larvae exposed to acute thermal shock. Fishery Bulletin, U.S. 79(1): 198-200.

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4. DeWitt, H.H., P.A. Grecay, J.S. Hacunda, B.P. Lindsay, R.F. Shaw and D.W. Townsend. 1981. An addition to the fish fauna of the Gulf of Maine with records of rare species. Proc.Biol. Soc. Washington. 94: 669-674.

5. Townsend, D.W. and R.F. Shaw. 1982. Daily growth increments in fish otoliths of blue whiting, Micromesistius poutassou (Risso) from above the Arctic Circle. Sarsia 67(3): 147-152.

6. Townsend, D.W. 1983. The relations between larval fishes and zooplankton in two inshore areas of the Gulf of Maine. Journal of Plankton Research 5(2): 145-173.

7. Townsend, D.W. 1983. Review of: Atlas of Fish Larvae of the Southern Ocean, by Efremenko, V.N. Cybium, Bull. Soc. Fr., Ichthyol., Mus. Hist. Nat. Vol. 7(2), 1983. Published In: Biomass Newsletter, Vol. 5(1): 11, 1983.

8. Townsend, D.W., C.M. Yentsch, W.M. Balch, E.D. True and C.E. Parker. 1983. An island mixing effect in the coastal Gulf of Maine. Helgolander Meeresunters 36: 347-356.

9. Townsend, D.W. 1984. Comparison of inshore zooplankton and ichthyoplankton populations in the Gulf of Maine. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 15: 79-90.

10. Townsend, D.W., T.L. Cucci and T. Berman. 1984. Subsurface chlorophyll maxima and vertical distributions of zooplankton in the Gulf of Maine. Journal of Plankton Research 6(5): 793-802.

11. Berman, T., D.W. Townsend, S.Z. El-Sayed, C. Trees and Y. Azov. 1984. Optical transparency, chlorophyll and primary productivity in the eastern Mediterranean near the Israeli coast. Oceanologica Acta 7(3): 367-372.

12. Berman, T., Y. Azov and D.W. Townsend. 1984. Understanding oligotrophic oceans: Can the eastern Mediterranean be a useful mode? In: O. Holm-Hansen, L. Bolis and R. Giles (eds.). Marine Phytoplankton and Productivity, pp. 101-112. Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies, Vol. 8. Springer-Verlag, NY.

13. Graham, J.J., B.J. Joule, C.L. Crosby and D.W. Townsend. 1984. Characteristics of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.) spawning population along the Maine coast, inferred from larval studies. Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Science 5(2): 131-142.

14. Carlson, C.J., D.W. Townsend, A.L. Hillyard and J.F. Eaton. 1984. Effect of an intertidal mudflat on the plankton of the overlying water column. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 41: 1523-1528.

15. Townsend, D.W. 1985. Review of: Pitcher, T.J. and P.J.B. Hart.1982. Fisheries Ecology. Avi Publishing Co., Westport, Conn. 414 p. Published In: National Fisherman, 1985.

16. Berman, T., P.D. Walline, A. Schneller, J. Rothenberg and D.W. Townsend. 1985. Secchi disk depth record: A claim for the Eastern Mediterranean. Limnology and Oceanography 30(2): 447448.

17. Townsend, D.W. and L.M. Cammen. 1985. A deep protozoan maximum in the Gulf of Maine. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 24: 177-182.

18. Graham, J.J. and D.W. Townsend. 1985. Estimates of mortality, growth and transport for cohorts of larval Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus, from Maine coastal waters. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 114: 490-498.

19. Townsend, D.W. and R.W. Spinrad. 1986. Early spring phytoplankton blooms in the Gulf of Maine. Continental Shelf Research 6(3): 515-529.

20. Berman, T., Y. Azov, A. Schneller, P. Walline and D.W. Townsend. 1986. Extent, transparency, and phytoplankton distribution of the neritic waters overlying the Israeli coastal shelf. Oceanologica Acta 9: 439-447.

21. Townsend, D.W., J.J. Graham and D.K. Stevenson. 1986. Dynamics of larval herring production in tidally mixed waters of the eastern coastal Gulf of Maine. pp. 253-277. In: M.J. Bowman, C.M. Yentsch and W.T. Peterson (eds.). Tidal Mixing and Plankton Dynamics. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 502 p.

22. King, F.D., T.L. Cucci and D.W. Townsend. 1987. Microzooplankton and macrozooplankton glutamate dehydrogenase as indices of the relative contributions of these fractions to ammonium regeneration in the Gulf of Maine. Journal of Plankton Research 9:277-289.

23. Townsend, D.W., J.P. Christensen, D.K. Stevenson, J.J. Graham and S.B. Chenoweth. 1987. The

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importance of a plume of tidally-mixed water to the biological oceanography of the Gulf of Maine. Journal of Marine Research 45: 699-728. 24. Townsend, D.W. and L.M. Cammen. 1988. Potential importance of the timing of spring plankton blooms to benthic-pelagic coupling and recruitment of juvenile demersal fishes. Biological Oceanography 5(3): 215-228. 25. Holligan, P.M. and D.W. Townsend. 1988. Review of: Backus, R.H. and D.W. Bourne, 1984, Georges Bank. MIT Press. 593 p. Pubished In: Science, 240: 1070-1071. 26. Townsend, D.W., J.P. Christensen, T. Berman, P. Walline, A. Schneller and C.S. Yentsch. 1988. Near-bottom chlorophyll maxima in shelf waters of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea: Upwelling and sediments as possible nutrient sources. Oceanologica Acta N.Sp. 1988: 235-244. 27. Dortch, Q., D.W. Townsend, R.W. Spinrad and L.M. Mayer. 1988. The role of nepheloid layers in benthic-pelagic coupling. NOAA Symp, Series for Underwater Research. 6(1): 181-204. 28. Townsend, D.W., R.L. Radtke, M.A. Morrison and S.D. Folsom. 1989. Recruitment implications of larval herring overwintering distributions in the Gulf of Maine, inferred using a new otolith technique. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 55: 1-13. 29. Brooks, D.A. and D.W. Townsend. 1989. Variability in the coastal current and nutrient pathways in the eastern Gulf of Maine. Journal of Marine Research 47: 303-321. 30. Radtke, R.L., D.W. Townsend, S.D. Folsom and M.A. Morrison. 1990. Strontium:Calcium concentration ratios in larval herring otoliths as indicators of environmental histories. Envirnmental Biology of Fishes 27: 51-61. 31. Townsend, D.W. and H.H. El Rashidi. 1991. Ichthyoplankton of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea. Thalassia Jugoslavica 23: 65-73. 32. Townsend, D.W. 1991. Influences of oceanographic processes on the biological productivity of the Gulf of Maine. Reviews in Aquatic Sciences 5: 211-230. 33. Radtke, R.L. and D.W. Townsend. 1991. Herring life history parameters resolved from structural and chemical analyses of otoliths. pp. 53-70. In: Proceedings of the International Herring Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, October 1990. University of Alaska Sea Grant Program Spec. Publ. AK-SG-91-01. 684 pp 34. Townsend, D.W., L.M. Mayer, Q. Dortch and R.W. Spinrad. 1992. Vertical structure and biological activity in the botton nepeloid layer of the Gulf of Maine. Continental Shelf Research 12: 367387. 35. Townsend, D.W. and P.F. Larsen (eds). 1992. The Gulf of Maine. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program, Regional Synthesis Series, No. 1. 135 p. 36. Townsend, D.W. 1992. Review of: Singer, S. Fred. 1989. Global Climate Change: Human and Natural Influences. Paragon, N.Y. 424 p. Published In: Environmental Management, 16(6): 822823. 37. Townsend, D.W. 1992. Ecology of larval herring in relation to the oceanography of the Gulf of Maine. Journal of Plankton Research 14: 467-493. 38. Townsend, D.W., R.L. Radtke, S. Corwin and D.A. Libby. 1992. Strontium:calcium ratios in juvenile Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus L.) otoliths as a function of temperature. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 160: 131-140. 39. Townsend, D.W. 1992. An overview of the oceanography and biological productivity of the Gulf of Maine. pp. 5-26 In: Townsend, D.W. and P.F. Larsen (eds). The Gulf of Maine. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program, Regional Synthesis Series, No. 1. 135 p. 40. Townsend, D.W., M.D. Keller, M.E. Sieracki and S.G. Ackleson. 1992. Spring phytoplankton blooms in the absence of vertical water column stability. Nature 360: 59-62. 41. Townsend, D.W. and P.F. Larsen (eds). 1992. The Gulf of Maine. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program, Regional Synthesis Series, No. 1. 135 p. 42. Townsend, D.W. and J.P. Christensen. 1992. A Nutrient Trap in the Western Gulf of Maine. pp. 284287. In: J. Wiggins and C.N.K. Mooers (Eds.), Proceedings of the Gulf of Maine Scientific Workshop, Woods Hole, MA, 8-10 January 1991. Publ. by the Urban Harbors Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston. 394 pp.

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